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When God Waits: Patience, Preparation, and the Price of a Commission
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon asks for a sign — and unlike the Pharisees, he is right to do so. In this episode, we examine Judges 6:17–24 and explore the difference bet...
White Hairs
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While traveling recently, I met a man in his fifties who looked barely thirty-five pleasant, sincere, but strikingly immature. A lifetime without work...
The Myth of Neutrality
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “The Myth of Neutrality” (Chalcedon Report No. 224), Rushdoony argues that neutrality is a fundamentally false and destructive concept rooted i...
Godly and Ungodly Mercy (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation frames God’s absolute sovereignty as the ground of Christian confidence: though the nations rage and conspire, His throne stands fas...
Gratitude
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scripture commands gratitude, not as a polite gesture but as a defining mark of the redeemed. Psalm 100 tells us to “be thankful unto him,” while ...
Wishful Thinking: James 1:14
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wishful thinking is man’s attempt to escape reality by enthroning desire over truth, replacing logic with impulse and turning life from the service ...
Learning Patience
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
James 1:2–4 is no one’s favorite memory verse, yet it tells us exactly how God grows us: by testing our faith. If we bristle at hardship, God send...
The New Idolatry
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “The New Idolatry” (Chalcedon Report No. 222), Rushdoony argues that modern theology has reproduced idolatry in subtler forms by relocating sov...
Are We Regulating Ourselves into Tyranny?
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This passage warns that excessive regulation even over seemingly minor matters like lawn maintenance can erode personal freedom and lead society towar...
Dynamite, Not Feelings: What God's Presence Actually Means
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon has just received a direct commission from God — "Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel" — and his immediate response is an excu...
The Restless Heart
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We all know what it’s like to do something intuitively like finding the right key in the dark until we think about it and suddenly can’t. Scriptur...
Pelagianism
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pelagianism teaches that man is not fallen in his whole being and can choose God by the power of his own will. Sin is minimized, original guilt denied...
The Meaning of a Sacrilege (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sacrilege, biblically defined as “robbing God,” is not a forgotten superstition but a central Scriptural reality with enduring consequences. From ...
What Draws People to a Particular Church?
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why are so many young conservatives flocking to Rome? Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts dig into the trend of political conservatives convert...
Sleep
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us breathe and sleep without effort unless something deeper is wrong. Scripture tells us that chronic sleeplessness is often not a medical iss...
All Men Have Not Faith
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Paul asked the Thessalonian believers to pray for him, his request was strikingly unlike the typical prayer lists we hear today. He urged them to...
The Will to Die
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Modern psychology confirms what Scripture has long declared: fallen man often carries within himself a will to self-destruction. Addictions, reckless ...
The Tribute Money (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
They thought they had Jesus trapped with a political “gotcha”: Is it lawful to pay Caesar’s tax or not? Say no, and Rome arrests Him. Say yes, a...
On Being a Sourpuss
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Asaph confesses in Psalm 73 that when he brooded over the prosperity of the wicked and the injustices around him, his heart “became sour,” and in ...
The Implications of Arianism
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Arianism denied that Jesus Christ is very God of very God, reducing Him to a created being and turning God into an unknowable force. What looked “re...
Easy Chair No. 137, January 2, 1987
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony critiques the lionization of Thoreau, highlighting that his retreat to Walden Pond was less a philosophical act than a gesture of perso...
The Shortest Verse
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us remember the Sunday school boys who tried to meet the Scripture-memory requirement by quoting the shortest verse in the Bible “Jesus wept...
Wolves
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This Chalcedon Report exposes how modern revisionism rewrites reality by denying the biblical doctrine of man, recasting predators as harmless, crimin...
The Covenant
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Scripture, a covenant is a bond of life established by God’s mercy. Though unequal parties, God graciously binds Himself to man through a covenan...
Death and Restitution (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony argues the church’s crisis is moral blindness: Christians often treat the unbelieving neighbor as basically good and needing only “Chris...
Yea, Hath God Said?
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the church’s most troubling people are not the openly rebellious but the selectively devout those who attend faithfully and read Scripture r...
Problems
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most of what consumes our political and personal energy today isn’t real problems at all but non-problems impossibilities created by human imaginati...
Locale of Meaning
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Locale of Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 172), Rushdoony argues that the decisive shift of the modern age was the relocation of meaning from G...
Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?” Rushdoony warns that statist categories—especially the IRS distinction between “profit” and...
Deliverance from Egypt
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When God sent Moses to demand Israel’s release, He already knew Pharaoh would refuse yet He ordained the confrontation to accomplish two crucial pur...
Donatism
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Donatism arose from a sincere desire for a pure church, but it turned holiness into a test of legitimacy rather than a fruit of grace. By insisting th...
The Basis for Covenant Community (Church and Community in History) (Remastered)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony says “community” originally meant communion a shared life grounded in Christ, not merely people living near each other. In Christendom, ...
What Happens When We Ignore God’s Law?
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every relationship you have — with your employer, your spouse, your children, your nation — is either governed by God's law or governed by you pla...
Contentment
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Insatiability never being satisfied with income, possessions, relationships, or circumstances is one of the most pervasive but least acknowledged sins...
The Appeal
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah 55 is God’s gracious invitation to weary and dissatisfied men to leave empty pursuits and find true life in Him. God offers free and abundant...
The Kingdom of God (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Kingdom of God teaches that Christ’s proclamation of the Kingdom does not abolish the law but confirms it in its fullest authority, revealing th...
Contrition
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Contrition true, painful sorrow for sin is rarely spoken of today, yet Scripture places immense weight on it. The word comes from a root meaning “to...
The Ancient Idols Have New Names
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Israel cried out to God in their misery, He didn't send a deliverer — He sent a prophet. Before the solution came the diagnosis: His Word. In t...
Easy Chair No. 136, December the 12th, 1986
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss revolution, linking it to Romanticism and the Enlightenment. They argue that the Enlightenment’s exaltation of...
Growth
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Psalmist compares the godly to “a tree planted by rivers of water,” and the image is deliberate: living trees never stop growing. The moment t...
The Heresy of Modalism
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Modalism denies the Trinity by reducing Father, Son, and Spirit to temporary “modes” of a single, unknowable force. It presents God as evolving, c...
Blindness vs. Growth
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some people repeat the same sins and blunders endlessly, even after receiving clear counsel, because as Solomon says “the way of the wicked is as da...
Providence
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Providence” (Chalcedon Report No. 131), Rushdoony argues that Christianity is founded on God-ordained distinctions between good and evil, righ...
Hearing God
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Many devout Christians faithfully attend church and pray, yet have a selective hearing problem when it comes to God’s Word. Like the boy who “didn...
Maintaining the Surface
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Much of life is lived behind masks carefully managed appearances that hide a self-centered inner reality. But God is not fooled by surfaces. He strips...
The Disappearing Cornerstone (Church and Community in History) (Remastered)
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony frames modern culture as a return to pagan totalitarianism, using the prosecution of cryptographer Philip Zimmermann as a symbol of the stat...
Do You Want a Vegetarian World?
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece critiques the modern animal rights movement and its push toward vegetarianism as a social imperative. While acknowledging the right of vege...
Who's There?
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peter writes to believers who had once lived in drunkenness, wastefulness, idolatry, and immorality but whose sudden transformation shocked their neig...
Disposable Man
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Disposable Man, Rushdoony argues that modern humanistic statism, by denying transcendent meaning and moral absolutes, inevitably treats human being...
Are All Wars Created Equal?
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is war ever justified — or is it, as the famous song declares, "good for nothing"? In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pasto...
Christian Mandate in Parable on God's Judgment (Remastered)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Mandate in Parable on God's Judgment (Christianity and Culture) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/christian-mandate-in-parable-on-gods-judgmen...
Be Yourself
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Learning gives a man more material to become either wise or foolish and because foolishness is native to our fallen hearts, it is far easier to be a f...
Monarchianism
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Monarchianism uses orthodox language while quietly emptying it of Trinitarian meaning. God is spoken of as the Father alone, while the Son and the Spi...
Systematic Theology and the Whole Counsel of God (Luke Walker)
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Christian Reconstruction 101, Reverend Jeremy Walker and Reverend Luke Walker discuss the importance of systematic theology—the...
God with Us
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the angel told Joseph to name Mary’s child Jesus “Savior” he also revealed that this birth fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy of Emmanuel, “Go...
The Driver's Seat
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Riding with a reckless driver makes us tense, nervous, and desperate to seize the wheel but many of us treat God the same way. Though Scripture makes ...
The Chief End of Man
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Man was created for a purpose: to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. When we live for anything else, life becomes frustrating and empty, like misus...
The Transfiguration (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Transfiguration reveals the unbreakable unity of Christ with the law and the prophets, identifying Jesus unmistakably as the Greater Moses and the...
Why Your Generation Is Poorer Than Your Father's
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why is your generation struggling in ways your parents never did — crushed by taxation, priced out of housing, watching your nation's agriculture an...
The Manichaean Heresy Today
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Manichaeanism replaces the Bible’s moral conflict (sin vs. obedience) with a false conflict of being spirit vs. matter, light vs. darkness. When evi...
Easy Chair No. 135, December 9, 1986
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony examines fame and its cultural impact, drawing on Leo Braudy’s The Frenzy of Renown. He contrasts the Christian era, where men lived ...
Worry and Unbelief
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scripture flatly forbids worry, calling it both foolish and sinful. Jesus warns against it, and Peter commands us to cast all our cares on the Lord, b...
Without God, Without Hope
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors increasingly report patients with no physical illness only a crushing sense that they have “nothing to live for.” Wealth, travel, and soci...
Post-Christian Era
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Post-Christian Era, Rushdoony rejects the claim that the modern world has moved beyond Christianity, arguing instead that it is humanism not Christ...
Wisdom as Foresight
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scripture teaches that true wisdom is not merely learning but seeing seeing connections, consequences, timing, and judgment. A wise person looks ahead...
In His Image
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Man was created in the image of God not in form, but in knowledge, righteousness, holiness, and dominion. Sin shattered that image, turning us inward ...
Christianity and Culture: Future (Christianity and Culture) (Remastered)
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony argues that state licensure of churches or Christian schools is a denial of Christ’s lordship, because licensure makes the state the final...
A Faithful Saying
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Titus 3, Paul offers what he calls a “faithful saying” a core statement of the Christian faith and it is strikingly practical. Believers are to...
Are We Robbing Widows?
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece highlights the harsh realities widows face under federal and state property and tax laws. A Missouri widow, unable to operate her late husb...
Genius
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This position paper argues that the modern idea of “genius” is a revived pagan concept rooted in animism and hero-worship, in which certain indivi...
The Carpocratians
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Carpocratians reshaped Jesus to suit their culture turning Him into a religious genius, rejecting the Old Testament, denying His uniqueness, and r...
The Way to Justice
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scripture uses the word righteousness to mean justice, revealing that a truly righteous people are those made just by God and committed to doing justi...
Christianity and Culture: Present (Christianity and Culture) (Remastered)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony’s central claim is that culture reveals religion, most clearly through law and education. By these measures, modern society is humanistic,...
Could Cultural Collapse Be a Household Failure?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts tackle an issue that quietly corrodes the health of the body of Chr...
Praising the Wicked
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Proverbs teaches that when people abandon God’s law, they unintentionally praise the wicked they vindicate evil by sharing its contempt for God’s ...
Loneliness
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is a world of difference between being alone and being lonely. Solitude can be a gift our Lord Himself sought it out in prayer but loneliness ca...
Antinomianism Attacked (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Antinomianism Attacked shows that Jesus’ conflict with the religious leaders centered on their substitution of human tradition for God’s law, a mo...
Creation and the Creator
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Belief in God is meaningless unless it is belief in God as Creator. Scripture declares that God made all things out of nothing by His sovereign word a...
Beyond the Narrative: How to Defeat Digital Psyops
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way, Nathan F. Conkey delivers a strategic briefing for young men navigating the disorientation of the moder...
Never Alone
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hebrews 12 reminds us that God’s chastening is not optional it is the necessary proof that we are His sons and daughters. Though His discipline is o...
The Carpocratian Heresy
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Carpocratianism dressed itself up as Christianity while rejecting God’s law, Scripture’s authority, and Christ’s atonement. Claiming a “higher...
Easy Chair No. 134, November 11, 1986
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott examine Romanticism as a cultural and intellectual movement rooted in a departure from a Christian worldview. Emerging a...
Nihilism
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Nihilism, Rushdoony traces the destructive power of nihilism as both a philosophy and a pervasive mood that rejects all authority, meaning, and hop...
Sin and Prayer
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A three-year-old’s innocent prayer “I thank Thee, Lord, for all my sins!” was quickly corrected, yet her mistake mirrors the attitude of many ad...
E is for Education
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Preschool Pioneers, Jeremy Walker challenges the modern assumption that education is mainly about learning facts, arguing instead ...
Questions and Answers (Christianity and Culture) (Remastered)
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony’s core claim is that law flows from sovereignty: whoever is lord in a society defines its rule of life. When churches deny God’s law thr...
Fools and Sin
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A child once suggested solving a drought by melting ice cubes a harmless example of folly, yet Scripture shows folly has a far deeper root: “Fools m...
The Power of the Resurrection
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jesus Christ claimed eternal divinity and a saving death and proved both by His resurrection. In rising from the dead, He broke the power of sin and t...
When is Rape Not Rape?
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A shocking case in New York exposed the failure of justice when a young bank teller was held at knifepoint, her face covered, and raped, yet the judge...
Psychopaths
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Psychopaths, Rushdoony argues that modern society’s replacement of accountability to God with accountability only to man has produced a culture s...
Love
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scientism has led many people to think love can be measured in percentages 20 percent to the job, 20 percent to the spouse, 20 percent to the children...
Can a Society Survive Without Biblical Boundaries?
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fraud, riots, and unthinkable headlines are becoming commonplace. It is easy to dismiss this current state of chaos as just "part of the times," but E...
The Carpocratian Heresy
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marcionism divides Scripture, rejects God’s law, and pits the Old Testament against the New turning grace into escapism and faith into retreat from ...
Priorities
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are you facing a flood of problems? In this episode, R.J. Rushdoony reflects on Israel’s impossible crossing of the Jordan and asks: if everyday tri...
Philosophy of Freud: Part II – Q&A (Philosophy of Freud) (Remastered)
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging Q&A, Rushdoony presses home that modern mental-health theory, medicine, and social policy are increasingly instruments of con...
Where Your Treasure Is
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore how dwelling on past troubles traps us in defeat, contrast that with Caleb’s forward-looking faith at eighty-five, and c...
The Easiest Questions
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The hardest questions in life are often the simplest to ask: why? Why suffering, loss, and pain? Christ Himself asked this question on the cross on ou...
The Woman Taken in Adultery (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Woman Taken in Adultery demonstrates not the setting aside of God’s law but its decisive confirmation by Christ, who exposes the hypocrisy and a...
The Unblemished Sacrifice
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we examine a judge’s discomfort at unpopular rulings to unpack the difference between human love and God-centered justice showing h...
The Three Lies Keeping You Paralysed
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever feel like you're driving with the handbrake on? You're saved. You go to church. You're trying. But something's not clicking. Nathan Conkey gets ...